diff --git a/Doc/library/email.rst b/Doc/library/email.rst
index 1033d8c..07d455b 100644
--- a/Doc/library/email.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/email.rst
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@
 Following those is a set of examples of using the fundamental parts of the APIs
 covered in the preceding sections.
 
-The forgoing represent the modern (unicode friendly) API of the email package.
+The foregoing represent the modern (unicode friendly) API of the email package.
 The remaining sections, starting with the :class:`~email.message.Message`
 class, cover the legacy :data:`~email.policy.compat32` API that deals much more
 directly with the details of how email messages are represented.  The